Where is the Fire? | Elder Wong Kien Yiak

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We hope this message will light up your tea.

If you have your Bible, which would you turn to?

First King chapter eighteen, First Kings chapter eighteen, and we

should see how the Lord leads us. First Kings eighteen

was twenty one. Sorry about Elijah and prophos about And

I was asking God what to speak to your He

give me this word about you know, where's the fire?

Where's the fire? Where is the fire of God in

our life? Now? I'm not talking about us being radical

Christian because in the Bible there's no category of a

radical Christian or a Domino Christian. It's just we categorize

believe us and non believer us. It's either we believe

one hundred percent or we don't believe. Right this morning

I prayed our people who believe right? So where's twenty one?

Elijah came here? Just read your the new uh the

So Elijah came here, came near to all the people

and say how long would you falter? Betwe two opinions. Now,

it's a situation whereby Elijah was one of the very

few prophets left in the midst of our unbelieving generation.

How many of you know that? Friends? If we are

living in the moment right now, whereby we have a

lot of believers, A lot of people believe in Jesus,

but their life, their life is not the word doesn't

stand out. Sometimes there's no difference between people who believe

and don't believe in the way we speak. For example,

before an exam, some of us say, you still use

the words should I one? And maybe that's true. But

the profession of our mother, the words that come off

from our lives and our lives, friends, doesn't reflect what

we believe in. Doesn't reflect that the hope that we

have in Jesus. So, for example, this building project, all right,

it's a revelation about where our heart is. And so

I would say, wow, thirty thousands a lot of money

for six years to use three plus three, so that

works out to be about five thousand a year divided

by twelve, that works up by close to five hundred

ring it a month, works it out by four maybe

hunger plus per week. It's doable. Friends, Our first winning

project for our church, we didn't any money, so we

rent a space of ten thousand square feet, raising the

deposit itself was for about forty thousand millire money back

then it was a challenge, but we pray got provided.

The next one was that just this irritating of the

next thing was that, you know, we say, if we

don't want to spend money on the coupets, like our

compus was really old, can become your dad. Really it's

really all dirty and stuff like that. But we it's

ten thousand square feet, all right, ten thousand and one

zero zero zero zero right ten? So you multipled by

cheering gags twenty thousand four in gears forty thousand Okay,

I we didn't want to spend money on the compass

because we can't take it away. We say that we

want to waste money for chess. Chess, right, so we

went off. So say before sixty ring git per chair.

Really good deal because we are still using the chests

and you now, and this is what we presented to everyone.

Buy one's see for yourself by faith sixteeds, do over

right and buy one see for your friend that will come. Yeah,

truly believe that every seat matters, every set count every

chair that's that's being on display. We lay hands on

it every weekend, say God, make sure it's filled every Sunday.

The church is not a four walls where why we celebrate?

Did you know the brand that we have for our keyboard,

not to say that we have a brand now right,

Did you know that what brand or microphone that we

have or the song system that we have first, all

those really doesn't matter at the end of the day

because we're not going to get saved by the quality

of sound. Not I mean decentselves important for ends. It

is right, we're not going to get saved by the

by the brand that we use. Asking I'm not as

scared to buy something that that doesn't last. But the

focus should be not every chair priority, every chair to

be filled with lives. Yeah, a person, a family that

needs to know Christ. Someone is looking for hope, someone

was looking for some wation, someone's who need prayer. So

we lay hands and we get enough Mighty buy three

hundred chairs. God begin to multiply fie up every chair.

You see, it's not the building project that we are

one thing, but it's the building project that's developing our faith.

So when the Elijah stood in front of the people

of Israel and said how long will you faughtable two opinions.

How long would you have no stand no, the word

is that no stick in the ground. Too many of

us are entertaining too many thoughts. Wheybody doesn't grow out

of faith and we pick on things that really the

word is that doesn't really go faith. I give you

an example. If be the homes right, our cell, go

homes Some of us are saying that, oh, the homes

ching is not deep enough. I don't know how many

of words. I don't think you got the God. The

homes ching is not deep enough. And therefore it is

the responsibility of the facilitator of the world to go

deeper before before let's go again, before let's go. The

problem here is this, it's always other people's fault because

why you're not going? How long would you fatom to opedion?

Because if God, if the Lord God is, if the

Lord is God, follow him. It is your responsibily. Therefore, therefore, friends,

to grow your faith before you ask for deeper. I

asked that you turn to read the Bible on the

daily basis before we ask for deeper teaching, pray on

the daily basis. God, I need help. I can't live

my life without you. You see, many of us here

are young, and that's that's the road right in front

of us here. And first, the journey of life is

never linear, it's never straight, it's filled. It turns ups, down,

mostly down and ups. It feels with something called time,

and sometimes things take time to develop. You enter the

career where you hurt your friends any more in your life,

I'm earning so much lesson I need to change. I

need right now because I need to be the center

of attention and sometimes life. Friends, I want to let

you know that's take time. You cannot rush through a

process whereby what God is bringing us shoe? So how long? Friends?

The question here is this that we will falter between

two opinions if the Lord has got to follow him?

Have been befalling Christ in our life? In our daily decision?

Think about it for a moment, in our daily decision,

have we been falling God? Because if you're if you're

honest and truthful without self, friends, we like a lifestyle

of a believer without commitments. We like a certain lifestyle

for examples that right now, I know it's super uncomfortable

because the Ecods are on Noah, I do feel anything.

You comprac you guys, are the kinder land. We are that,

we are, we are, we are outside, we are right. No,

some of us feel uncomfortable right with the settings. Okay,

you're not comfortable with worship wipe, But one day, friends,

worship is without instruments. Can we see worship lot or not?

If ever, if ever, you have an opportunity to visit

our deaths communities worship service in brick fields. They start

at nine am in the morning. If you ever happened

to be the area, don't drop by because you change

your perspective of what worship really is. They don't have

any instruments. They don't have a gemba. The gemba is

used to keep the tempo of the songs. The songs

you cannot read from the projector because they're signed by

picture rather than words. So no matter what you try

to sing, friends, it will never be the same as

the projection. They will really change in my life because

we are so used to following the words out there,

and some men with the words us not in line

with the worship. Then you go like hey, someone sleeping

on the job. We get very distracted. God this morning

wants us to focus on what really matters. If God

is your God, friends, not God, or just couple of songs,

not God, just during the message on Sunday, by Monday

to Friday. If God followed him, Yeah, But the Bible

here says, the people did not give him a word.

You see that time that was a queen called Jezebel.

She was a very big, good queen. She killed majority

of the prophets of Bau as prophets of God. Sometimes

fear strikes our heart the moment you stand out, the

moment you believe, the moment you express, the moment you pray,

ask God for wisdom. You feel like you are not

part of the community. This morning, the one wants to

minister to us because it is all about the Jezebel

spirit that keeps us quiet. Friends, It's about the spirit

of God that causes us to believe. See too many people.

The way is that we are very loud on Sunday,

very loud in our expressions on Sunday, but very quiet

in our devotion on the weekdays. We are very loud

with raising our hands on Sunday, but very quiet in

the midst of trouble. The Bible says, when you are

at the really friends, to raise up our hands. God

is going to give us something sing, But most time

we don't sing because we're so overwhelmed with the surrounding.

And the people do not answer Elijah word because they

allow the environment to dictate how their faith should be.

So where is the fire of God that we claim

to see on Sunday during our week days? Where is

god transformation power in the way we speak, in the

way we carry ourselves. First, I'm not asking us to

come in full time. I'm not asking us to give

our possession by asking us to be transformed by the

winning of our mind. So, therefore, the way we speak, friends,

it is not one without hope, it is with hope.

The way we live our lives is not without a

destiny and a purpose, is one with a destiny and

a purpose. Many times in our life can go three freends.

It is not the length of days that we have here

on earth, but our purpose, our mission here on earth.

And when God speaks to us, friends, I pray they

recognize there's a spirit of Elijah, that's a word that's

encouraging us to depend more on God. And there's the

opposite spirit, the spirit of Jezebel, that caused us to

be quiet to blend in. It's okay because the rest

the believers are like that. The rest of the believers

are like that, so it's all right because after all,

other believers are expressing the faith the same. AyL Ex Church.

For the past twenty four years, we have a very

rich history in nation building. We will go to towns

and smaller towns pay our own way. We truly believe

in this national calling that reaching Malaysia. Regardless of which

town or we should say this, we will bring young

people alongside with us because we truly believe that. Friends,

three Malaysia, we need the youth. But many times people

will just say this to ruin the youth, you need

x amount budget. By the truth to ourselves, friends, if

God is for worsen, no budget can be against us.

So therefore it's not about the budget that we have.

It's about the spirit of God. God give us an

idea how to reach the youth. So for the past

twenty four years, friends, we've been doing concerts in big

and small settings. So we're very comfortable with the stage, stadium,

the Garra Stadium, Medica, the Graal Stadium, the way the

Bruno Mars did the concert in we did consent there

before for Jesus, but that really it's only a one

off thing that after a while. Friend's attraction for Christianity

and worship is the stage. Would you allow God to

speak to us and say, God, I only go one life.

All that you've given me a good job and stuff,

that I only go one life. Therefore I want to

make it count, make it count. No, I don't orders

blending and be quiet and lot the Jezebel spirit to

be alive, meaning to say that it's always God believe

us as well as we don't express out boldly and

say God, if you want me to do this, I

would do this. Jezebelk keeps it quiet because I fear

of a mistake. Why passa Stevens here say that we're

going to embark on the project and nobody gave and

you'll be alone there by himself with his wife, say

that this is it. I will resign as a lead passer.

Many passes on because it's risky to take the step

of faith to believe. Lazarus told Persecutive that ex London

is difficult. I pity the guy that God's going to use,

and God called him to ex London. Yeah, he said

at the post. I pitied the guy that God's going

to call because London is not easy, and God caught

him to help us to plant ex London. So you

can imagine this. Every winter he'll carry one or two

luggage back with him on the public transportation to the

church to set up and to tear down and bring

it back to the harbor. Again not easy x Edinburgh

Month saying the product of ex kids, the petit of

all girls with the voice friends of a naive old.

See her voice is really cute having to lead a

church in extending we were. Yet the task did not

overwhelm he because she truly believed. If God is for

her now they can be against it. Ex Germany started,

not the easiest of place good and do is in

the sixties. Rands in the sixties say God, if you

can use anyone, you can use me. I got to

reach this land for Jesus here, regardless of weather, who comes,

I want to declare the ex Germany starts. So, friend,

how long will we keep quiet in our own life,

with our own walk? Now I'm not asking us to

raise up a banner go to college tomorrow and say

and just open up a pupet, appreciate it. No, it

starts with our devotion. Let me just quickly, just bring

your too to worse thirty one Then Elijah, Elijah said,

all the people come near to me right now. All

the bird came near to you, and he repaired. Come on,

he repaired the altar. The next I think the next one, yeah,

we translor he rebuild the author. Another translation put that

he repaired the author. Friends, before we step out by faith,

I wanted to do great things for God. Friends, Let's

get our relationship with God right. I want let's get

our relationship with God right, because many of us here

don't even have a relationship of God. We have a

firm friends, but no relationship. It's like having instagrad friends.

We know so much about the other party, but no relationship.

No relationship. Friends. Relationship is power and s key. No

matter how much you re exist online, friends, there is

nothing like a human touch. There's some things you cannot

The word is that do a wavery fun. We still long.

We are wired and we are made by God for

human touch. So Elie, you get the twelve stones strands

and begin to repair the altar. First thing first in

our life. We have to repair the author in our lives. Friends.

First things in life. Friends, I'm not sure how many

avers here have not been doing of devotion and reading

the Bible. And we want to encourage your friends read

your Bible on the daily basis. The day will come, friends,

the day will come where by the Bible app on

our food will be removed. The day will come where

by we won't access online Bible. But would you say

the word of God, physical word of God. That's why

we're encouraging every church goer to buy your own Bible,

because the day will come w by the Bible will

be removed. When the Bibles remove, friends, you won't have

access and you try to think of where to get

the word of God. Buy a Bible for at least

investing to there's so many books out there this year.

Just put the size of money and invest into a

Bible because there's nothing like having the world of God

in your life. So repair friends first. You know that

when if you got to repair your relationship of God.

The Bible here says that with the travel storts that

he build the altar in the name of the Lord.

There is a format, there is a strategy you cannot

repair the altar without the word starts repairing friends. After

we repair friends, that he make a trench around the altar,

latching up the whole two sets of Chelsea. The next scripture,

then he put the wood in order and cut the

wood in the piece of strengths. He began to begin

to lay the altar with wood and offering wood and offering.

And many times this is where we stop our worship,

meaning friends, we come to church worship, we give our frame,

we give a bit of money to the Lord. And

that's it doesn't mean what we offer to the lot

of friends. It's being consumed. We can get sais right

with the wood, with the stones, with the budhens on

the alter. Happy check, let's done, really happy. But the

Bible here says that fuel forewater pots of water and

begin to pour it on the burnt sacrifice and on

the wood. If we didn't know, that was a time

whereby the land has not been experiencing rain for a

very long time. So if the land doesn't have enough water, friends,

the last thing you and I will be doing is

to pour water on the alter. And many times this

is where many believers stopped because we have the wood.

We have the bull on the altar there, But when

God calls us for what the parts will paw not

just one but four. Sometimes in our lives say God,

I don't have I can't when God challenges by faith,

and this today, God's speaking to you by faith as well,

because if your life is not by faith, friends, then

we just have a form of a belief, firm of

a belief in our church we truly believe is that

there is no such thing as a person too young

to serve the law or too old to serve the Lord.

If you have a desire to serve God, serve, desire

to plan a home's plan, desire to be part of leadership,

go for it, desire to minister, go for it. Many

times in our journey we stop at the wood because

it's a lot of work to bring the wood for sacrifice,

to cower a livestock to offer up to God is

never easy. We stop at that because we think that's enough,

because the rest is God and God this morning is

asking us, in the time of job, would you pour water?

Not in the times of lack in your life? Not

enough time? Will you sol time in the time? Everybody

say God, I cannot afford to be patient? Would you

be patient in the time of Mary? You cannot afford

to love? Would you offer love? Why is it that

God's been speaking to us fans is asking us, would

you do it again and again? Not just once, but

four times? But you don't unerstand. I've been burned before,

I've been discouraged before, I've been disappointed before. What you

we will offer that to begin to do it again?

Sometimes we put behind whereby God takes second place. I've

been in church for almost a day over the years

of my life, and I figure a person's journey. It's

either you believe all the way, you're ups and your downs,

your disappointment and your success, and say God and they

of the day. I want to remain fitful to you.

I want to be remain fitful to you. You ask

anyone who served a lationship before. Of course they've been disappointed.

Of course there have been discouragement. Life is not made

from the stage, friends, Life is made on the ground.

So therefore it's not about the stage on the ground. Friends,

is true that disappointment is God still got not through

the discouragement. But if you're the only one, the only

one would you say God, here I am. Why. But

if you're in light here, God calls you right now

I want you to phase up the professor bow. Would

you answer God and say, God, here I am see.

If like to watch movies by the hero again all

odds defeats the enemy. We celebrate heroes like that in

the movie. But this morning God is calling us, really

calling us to be heroes in our own lives. Would

you stand out amidst of the discouragement, the disappointment, say God,

here I am. Would you stand out in the midst

of like and not enough time? But God, if you

can stretch time, I want to serve you. If you

could stretch time, I want to serve you. Someone will

say I may not be the brightest, but God I

can give creativity and wisdom, like how you give Daniel

in managing the country. I will step up by faith.

Some of here allowed us lions then to keep us

quiet and rather than to pray, because if you pray,

I'll show you to the lions. Then many of us

here have a lot of lions in our life to

keep us quiet. Stop doing it. If that will consume you.

And many times you know what happened Church or rightnother

the church, God take a back seat. We short cut

our process. I got to close the next ten minutes.

And here's my challenge to all of us. Here. Elijah

repaired the altar. Elijah repaired the altar. Would you take

time to prepare the altar before the Lord? In regardless

of your background, friends, where you came from, who will

repair your altar before the Lord? Friends? Because the challenge

that's coming your way, friends, is even greater than what

you're facing. Some of you will be CEOs, will be

top man, neager, you will be moms and dads. The

challenges in your life would be greater. But there's a

time whereby you can depend on God. If you don't

learn how to depend on God here right now, by

repairing your altar by the time it problem hits you,

wish you have an earlier run away. And with this,

our close friends, every believer's life is always marked by sacrifice.

Worse thirty four then you say do it a second time,

and they did it a second time. They say do

it at the time, and they did it at the time.

Every believer's life is always marked by sacrifice. With this,

I want to close and pray for us too. Many

believers are pray for comfort. Comfort comfort. When I say

comfort me and say that I want a particular lifestyle,

we allow lifestyle to take our Christian views and many

times in our life in our journey, friends, God will

come to will go. We will experience the kine land,

will experience the land for and honey, we will definitely.

But before they could come, friends, we have to we

have to face the giants. We have to. But life

is such friends, when you ent it, that's pause, isn't it.

You wish you could stage out problems in your life.

Problems problem A, you comforts. Okay, you give me six

months time. I got to restart my mental health was

before face problem B. But help me if you know

that problem A and problem B is almost like the

next day, if ect something the same day, So say,

may know that I'm right now in the midst of

my house repair renovation, and this stuff like that started

in February. Stay in the house whereby there was a

huge crack for fourteen years, I didn't do anything we

did because you know, we just moved in there by

faith enjoyed the house, me and my wife and thought

this year before I turned fifty to just get my

house in order. Started as a simple a thing. It's

about time. Things are falling apart, water here, leaks and

stuff like. What starts in February France, count came all

the way to September, and I think I see a

light by October by in the whole mess of journey fans,

we say that, you know, it's all right. Renuation happens

at the bag I saw, got no kitchen to use,

peck out everything my keachen reading for the eight hours

live it does. So that's the the seal of every

place that we thought that doesn't come in. By the

time the back portions almost done, I had to start

coming to the end right then low and behold. I discovered,

you know that my ceiling, my ceiling in my upstairs

was not done properly by the developer. And I mean

we should be to say that I have a form

of a ceiling but no power. In other words, the

ceiling structure was not supported by the real structure. So

in other words, it's there, but if a cat comes

upon it, it might drop in the near future. So

I had the choice to live in it and sell

the next odor when I move out without saying a

single thing or in the midst of repair, just get

it done, have a choice. Then one of my main

stop cart was leaking water. I just wanted changing me

only to fire out my whole entire pipes in my

house was a gi pipe met the pipe, rust water

and stuff like that. So I was at the place where,

by God, you know, one thing after another, what would

you do with friends? It's I just thought. I told

my wife, let's do it one time, okay, then we

can enjoy the house for the next season our live.

So by end of July, me and my wife really

pack up everything into two rooms, squeeze everything, the spend

to the bay, everything in the two rooms, every bing.

Staying apart for almost two much now we're not angrying

each other, we're not arguing. She stayed with her parents.

I stayed with my dad because her place only can

got a single baite. My place is not My place

is challenging. Our friends really challenging. I can't tell you

the story later. So we've been apart for almost like

two months August and now September, praise got October. We're

ending ending soon. Then we're going to go back and

were praise to Hallelujah. It reads no friends, they're in

the midst of the journey. Last month, or rather tricks ago,

my wife developed had a sharp pin a year so

much showed that. You know, she couldn't focus, she couldn't drive,

she was warmer thing. She went to see doctor. Doctor says,

infection in the midst of everything. Then give her anti biotics.

After one of those finish didn't work, give her a

second dose. Second dose. Halfway through the million went to

see a specialist. Then around anti biotics there in the

midst of renovation works that all sudden, friends, I keep

you know, in my years of growing up, right as

you can see my body size, I like. I like

to swim. But I felt down one day, really bad.

I've never experienced it before my entire years of swimming.

Coming up from the pool. Felt down. I thought that

I could do a slow motion wherever I can fall

on my whole left right hand and just lie down flat.

But you know, your mind works faster than your body.

As you begin to eat, you thought you could run

hang on meter, but in fact ly you re ten

meter kind so my body turning off. So I know

the tip of my shoulder down to a very hard

cement floor. I was out for at least two seconds

because I knew this spain before, so I didn't do

anything we need. You know, people give me eyes. I

I just thought, okay, I know I fought before freends

when I was young. You know, friends, I really did

a lot of stuff, so I'm quite okay with pain. Right.

But when I look in the mirror the night, friends,

my right hand shoulder the volume already. The power of

the Master is that double insize compared to my life.

There in three days time, after my whole right chest

here was dark yellow and on top there was this

dark blue. When to see the specialist, I just thought that,

I say, God, you really have a funny sense of humor.

As a human being. I only have a seventy five

percent functioning left hand. I broke my left hand before,

but it didn't get fixed up properly. So I my

left hand is my weak ahead. That's the now story.

So I say, God, please don't remove my right hand.

I need my right hand. You know how important this

home set Master is that you can't get up from

the bit when you know, friends, without this, it's very

hard to get up on the bit, I just stop biting.

You just need your apps, but I know you need

every part of your master. You can't sleep as soon

as well because I got this huge bomb on my back.

Worst things. You cannot even wear a T shirt and

ship doctor scanned. They all the scared extra oultra sound

save it so long. You know. Good news is that

you just just looks like there's a slight fracture on

your collarbone, so you don't need to be honestly, I

can't confirm it slight crack. But your master's a different story.

You're almost tore your master. Did you know if you

toll your this chest master here right, your whole right

hand will be useless. You can't even lift it up.

So this whole thing is being supported. You actually tore

your master, and therefore I give you six weeks. You

heal by itself, this stick hue by itself. It's very scary.

I wish there's a pattern so when he reads it, pausure,

What do you do in the middle of house renovation?

You gotta seventy five percent function left hand. I tell

you why it's so hard, because Malaysia my hand drive.

I can't even stretch up my hand to tap the ticket.

So when I wanted to tap the ticket, this is

why I do. I lead to my life, so them

my hand, the stretch of too far, the kind of thing.

What do you do? Friends, in the midst of everything,

the environment around you, the spirit of Jess will say,

just keep quiet. This is your life. She just wished

that if you knew to go to four first, you

will't fall. I knew, friends, that wasn't normal, because I

came off from many times my entire life. I kind

of knew that wasn't a normal thing that happened to me.

I begin to praise se God. I recognize something's happening

here in my life. My whole family is being under attack.

Say God, I've played the blood of Jesus right now

and begin declared that now I perform against this, shall prosper.

See first, you got to take a our defriends, and

to know what's happening. The question here is this, can

you recognize the spirit of Elijah and work it out

prompting you to make a stand. It's not about the

people keeping quiet, friends, It's about recognizing the voice of

the Holy Spirit prompting your heart make a stand. Trust me.

It's about us hearing the voice of Elijah in our lives, saying,

is there anyone here who believe in God? There was

one week ago, friends, in my hand. Right now when

I went to see doctor, I couldn't even lift up here.

But right now I couldn't live up here already surely,

But I truly believe that God will heal, friends, and

I will come every of the child by the grace

of God. And no matter what, even if friends, it

doesn't heal properly, even if it doesn't heal properly, because

you never know, even if it doesn't heal properly, Friends,

would you still serve the Lord? If what God doesn't

come true at the time that you want, would you

still serve him? That environment may not be forever. Would

you still hold onto him? You could be the only

believer of friends who you still hold onto Jesus. Every

eye close here about right now, Friends, God's asking where

is the fire? Where's the sacrifice? Where's the spirit? By

saying God, I truly believe in you. Therefore, prepare for water. Pause,

I get a paw. Friends around saying, don't go to church,

just sticks up your time, your money by saying God,

you deserve my time, you deserve my resources.

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that this week is going to be a good week

ahead for you. God bless